Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/map tag status

This page is presently inactive and retained primarily for historical interest.The map tagging has now been successfully completed.
For information about the current georeferencing phase of the project see the georeferencing campaign page and corresponding georeferencing status page.

Nearly 30,000 old maps found in the British Library's Flickr stream[edit]

(Note -- you need to be logged in with a Flickr account on Flickr to be able to add tags. The tags can be found on grey buttons below the image on the Flickr image page. An 'add tags' link is located to the top right of this cluster.
There is also a keyboard shortcut for this on Flickr: "t".)

First, open any one of the index pages linked to on the left, and choose any part of it.

Open the pink Untagged maps? templated link for each book entry for that part of the index, to go through to the Flickr page for that book (from which anything already tagged as a map should have been excluded).

Scroll down the Flickr page. If it includes maps or ground plans,

first edit the wiki entry, copying-and-pasting-and-changing the {{UntaggedMaps|sysnum = nnnnnnnnn}} template to add a "HasMaps" template {{HasMaps|sysnum = nnnnnnnnn}} before it, which adds a maps link;

then go through the page on Flickr, open each map (or ground plan) and tag each map image on its Flickr page with the word map.

then, once there are no more maps to tag, edit the wiki entry again to remove the "Untagged maps" template, leaving the "Has Maps" template in.

Alternatively if there were no maps (which will be the case the majority of the time), simply replace the {{UntaggedMaps}} template with the words no maps.

Additional tags, as well as the tag map, that the British Library has requested are:

split -- if a single image contains multiple maps

conical -- if the map is not on a simple rectangular projection

world -- for maps which display the entire world on one sheet

rotatec -- for maps which need to be rotated clockwise

rotatecc -- for maps which need to be rotated anticlockwise

This page (which should update every quarter of an hour) will count how many {{UntaggedMaps}} templates have been removed.